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Most retrospectives unfold like a stately procession.

In September 2010, an ailing Fidel Castro made a striking admission.

The inside of an armored sarcophagus smells of gunpowder, gasoline, and gangrene.

Days after two deadly earthquakes struck northern Venezuela on June 24, killing at least 6,000 people and injuring tens of thousands more, the Venezuelan Seismological Research Foundation, known as Funvisis, made an unusual public plea: Could whoever had…

Bethany Mann has put thousands of miles on her 2014 Toyota RAV4 while campaigning for office in Missouri’s Third Congressional District.

The American age that followed World War II was bound to end eventually.

Donald Trump has given the federal judiciary an ultimatum: Let him put his name on the Kennedy Center, or he won’t save it.

If there was any question over whether the concept of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” is still operative in Washington’s hyper-partisan political environment, the answer may be found in the budding coalition of progressives and MAGA-friendly activists

Donald Trump has not forgotten his midsummer promise to publicly shame the Smithsonian.

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The Lindsey Graham Sanctioning Russia Act, which the House will likely vote on this week, looks like a no-brainer for supporters of Ukraine who have been calling for President Trump to get tougher on Russia.

In late July, one of the world’s most famous mathematicians issued a warning to his field.

The AI panic has arrived.

Here is a selective list of the dozens of images the president has recently disseminated on Truth Social: Donald Trump on a horse next to George Washington on a horse, in the body of Hulk Hogan, beating Hogan in arm wrestling, standing between General Geo…

Weddings, famously, create conflict.

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The Men Who Don’t Want Women to Vote A virulent form of misogyny has become the single most important force holding together the American right, Helen Lewis argued in the June issue.

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When the Widow’s Bay creator Katie Dippold accepted her Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series last night, she joked that she was so proud of her win, she intended to display her trophy as prominently as possible in her home.

The actor Jean Smart began her acceptance speech at the Emmys tonight with a request: “Just the men stay standing,” she said to the applauding crowd before her.

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night, nor Donald Trump will stop the United States Postal Service from delivering mail-in ballots in the coming midterm elections.

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Donald Trump loves a deal, even if, at times, it’s just the idea of a deal.

Not long ago, most of Washington was scrambling to be as friendly as possible to the rise of artificial intelligence.

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The saga of Donald Trump’s repeated attempts to slap his name onto the John F.

On Saturday night, college-football fans in Texas were blessed with a moment of collective ecstasy.

One might expect Donald Trump to be concerned about gas prices.

One consistent complaint against the Trump administration is that it is imposing personalist rule, in which the whims of the leader override the law.

The sculpture that Donald Trump wants removed from the National Mall has a reputation even among its admirers for being a bit inscrutable.

Like many Millennial men, I used to be pretty invested in Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West—primarily because of his music, but also because of his unique position as the one celebrity who seemed empowered to behave however he wanted.

Terry Taylor is worth about $2 billion, and you have almost surely never heard of him.

In The Atlantic’s October cover story, “Empire of Grift,” staff writer Anne Applebaum examines how far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.

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Last year seemed like a pretty big one for breakthroughs in child care.

President Trump will host Xi Jinping for a state visit on September 24, once again putting his claimed bonhomie with the Chinese leader at the center of the relations between the two superpowers.

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Today The Atlantic is launching The Permanent Questions, a new video podcast hosted by staff writer David Brooks about the fundamental questions of human life that every generation—and every individual—must attempt to answer.

My aunt, who in her mild imagination was Ginger Rogers lacking an Astaire, lived to the last a notch above her station, an exiled queen propped up by Medicare.

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube In the debut episode of The Permanent Questions With David Brooks, David speaks with the philosopher Meghan Sullivan about perhaps the most important question of them all: How should we live our lives?